After a court ruling forced Somerville to pay an additional $29.8 million for property it had taken, mayor Katjana Ballantyne announced that the city will abandon its original plans for a public safety complex at 90 Washington St.

Jan 2, 2025 · Is change in the air at the Somerville Theatre? We’ve been hearing some rumblings about a transition in management. You can add the Crystal Ballroom and Arlington’s Capitol Theatre into the mix, because all are operated by Frame One Theatres and owned by …

6 days ago · While a number of transportation projects are in the works by Cambridge staff, such as efforts to complete the Cycling Safety Ordinance, many of the large, transformative projects on the horizon come from departments outside the city, including the state Department of Transportation, MBTA, the Eversource energy utility and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which is responsible for ...

Oct 6, 2024 · Cambridgejoe: Somerville passed new zoning to comply with the MBTA Communities Act back in November 2023. To do that, it legalized triple-deckers in all residential zones by right, and eliminated the four-unrelated-persons rule and permits for steep slopes.

Jan 28, 2025 · Hamill’s production aims to center the women in Odysseus’ world and open a conversation about trauma, gender roles during wartime and how forgiveness can end cycles of violence. Getting to what is considered a world premiere for the production was a bit of a saga itself: After an initial stage ...

Dec 29, 2024 · Greg Harris is the founding editor of the literary magazine Pangyrus and the founder and co-director of Harvard LITfest. His essays, reviews, and stories have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Review, Jewish Fiction, Earth Island Journal and elsewhere.

Dec 26, 2024 · The H Mart in Davis Square has an estimated opening date of Jan. 9, according to a worker at the 240 Elm St. location on Thursday. (Update on Dec. 26, 2024: The Jan. 9 opening is confirmed by the company’s marketing department.)The location began advertising this week – with a display in its corner entryway – that it would devote part of its square footage to Artbox, a chain of cute and ...

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4 days ago · Somerville councilor at-large Willie Burnley Jr. announced his candidacy for mayor on Sunday, setting up a three-way primary in September. “Somerville is, to me, one of the most amazing places in the country,” Burnley told Cambridge Day. “We have a constituency that is so passionate, so ...

Dec 15, 2024 · Submissions opened Sunday and will be open until Jan. 15 for performance arts from stand-up, sketch and improv comedy to less comically inclined arts from storytelling and musicals to clowning, visual arts and puppetry.